I have well developed an ASP.NET website with SQL Server 2000. How can I drop it on a server?
You might find these resources helpful:
ASP.NET Web Site Project Deployment Overview
Deploying a Database by Using the Database Publishing Wizard
How to: Deploy a Database With a Web Application Project
Depends on a number of things (e.g. if you have direct access to the server(s)). I tend to export my database structure as a SQL script and execute that against the production database. I then "publish" the site using VS and copy it across to a virtual directory on the web server.
If I am passing the application to a customer, I tend to use WiX or a VS deployment project to wrap the application up in an installer.
You can use SQL Server Publisher (free) wizard for moving database from development machine to the server. Or you can use SQL Server database schema synchronization tool by Red-gate.com
And SitePubisher for deploying files over FTP (and VPN)
There are many ways to do this.
Read this - http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Deploy-ASP.NET.aspx
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I have to migrate asp.net webform & asp.net MVC websites to Microsoft Azure and most of the webform based website have been created as "website project" in visual studio. and all website use MS SQL Server 2008 R2 as database plus all website use either .net Framework 4.0/4.5.
I confused by reading article regarding migrating webform based website to Azure not working and need code changes and if we use Azure database then we cant use stored procedures etc... this has confused me alot.
So i have few question regarding this.
Can i move asp.net webform 4.0 based website directly to Azure without making any code changes assuming we are connecting to external SQL SERVER 2008.
For first step can which MS SQL Server database i need to choose on Azure so that i can easily restore database in Azure and connect to this database from my local machine using MS Management Studio..
I have heard lot about Azure store files as blob and we need to make change to code to point to new path. What is this Azure blob and why do we need to change code for pointing them blob.
What i have to do keep allowing users from uploading images & document without making any changes in the code..
Does Azure website have always 1 instance running or multiple instance running, i am asking this as our website use InProc session state will i lose session if it is ruuning on multiple instance. or should we prefer SQL Session state in Azure enviroment.
What i should take into consideration for migration current website to Azure.
Will copy pasting all the files in Azure work. Please advise
Depending on how old the ASP.NET webforms projects are, you are going to need to bring them up to date with current security, and anti forgery tokens, etc.
Also if the project was previously a "Website" and not a "Web Application", this is also something that you will need to take into consideration!
I am currently working on upgrading a website to a web application.
This might be a useful website to look through
http://www.gregthatcher.com/Azure/Ch7_ConvertWebsiteToWebApplication.aspx
Migrating to Azure is easy ,
create a Azure account and create the web app which you want to host or create.
you can deploy using FTP or use the build and deploy feature in TFS account.
Steps
You need to create web app in your account.
create a DB in azure manually or export your DB to azure from Management studio if you have an existing DB
get the Connection string from the Publish profile from Azure.
Setup the storage account if you want to store files ,images etc.
I have two working servers (at different locations) with IIS hosting WCF. On each server, WCF (by way of an entity framework) connects to a PostgreSQL database on the same server. My development machine is my laptop.
I have added new stored procedures to the PostgreSQL databases and added these to the WCF implementation on my laptop.
Currently, the Server only has the production site set to use ASP.Net v4.0 application pool.
In Visual Studio 2010 (.Net 4.0), can someone please tell me how to:
Create a Web Deployment Application that will use the existing PostgreSQL database already on the Server (I do not want to export any database from my laptop).
Create a Web Deployment Application that will use the existing PostgreSQL database already on the Server, but target a non-production site like "TestingSite".
Is there anyway of creating a Web Deployment Application that will CREATE the new site, "TestingSite" on the Server with the correct settings.
Ultimately I'm hoping for something really simple that I can develop the WCF code I need on my laptop, then deploy it to the server for testing.
I want to create a desktop application, I normally work on web based applications so have very little knowledge about creating console applications using .Net and visual studio.
So now in this application I'l also be using database connectivity and stored procedures (SQL server). But how should I start doing this as I dont want to install SQL server on my clients system.
thanks in advance..
I think it depends on the goal of your application, the amout and sturcture of the data and the environment. The last point aims to the client system, if the client is part of an enterprise network (e.g. Active Directory) or is a common user at home.
maybe you can use xml or json files to store the data
if you need a database, you can create a setup project for your application which automatically installs a SQL Server express
another way is, if it's applicable for you, your application can consume a webservice which provide the data
you could use SQL Server compact http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645984(v=sql.100).aspx or SQL Lite to embark your DB in your application without external dependencies.
Otherwise, if offline isn't a requirement, you could go the "cloud" way, with web APIs
I'm not very experienced with ASP.NET, I've started to learn about all of this a month or so ago, I've made a very simple website that I would like to test online, there are no database connections or anything of the sorts.
My previous experience with the Web has taught me to just upload files via an FTP client and being done, this is obviously not the case with ASP.NET.
I'm running Visual Web Developer Express and having a really hard time understanding how to get my website online on my host. I've read a few things about the web.config file, I've changed my server to support version 4.0, but I still battle with error after error after uploading my files onto my server. I've also read that the Express edition is limited in the "Publish Website" department.
I'd just like a direct answer on how to publish my website onto my host.
Make sure that your hosting company supports ASP.NET websites. Get a FTP client like FileZilla. Copy all of your files to the remote directory. If you are using a database, change the connection string in your web.config file to match the connection string of your new database. You get the connection string from the hosting company.
There are different ways to deploy your Asp.net web site.
Web Setup Project: Create a web setup project and use the resulting files to deploy your application. Read More
Copy Web Site Tool: Update and deploy websites in environments with multiple developers and servers. Read More
Publish website tool: Pre compile your websites.
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I wanted to run a .net application on a laptop. I created the application(aspx pages and SQL database) on a computer that has VS 08 installed. Now i wanted to run this application on a laptop that does not have SQL sever 2005 installed.
As far as the aspx pages if i publish them to a zip drive copy it to my laptop and go into IIS and define a new virtual directory to point where my pages are that should work RIGHT??
Now for the database i don't know what i need to do
any ideas???
Publish the web app to a folder on the laptop and create an IIS Virtual directory pointing to that folder.
As for the DB, install an express version of SQL Server (http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/) and
point you web app at them.
Have you considered using SQL Server Compact Edition? This will allow you to move the db around with the application.
You need to install sql server on the client(laptop) so you can run the application properly
As far as the aspx pages if i publish
them to a zip drive copy it to my
laptop and go into IIS and define a
new virtual directory to point where
my pages are that should work RIGHT??
Yes this should work.
As for the database, you'll need to install it on the computer you are running IIS on and copy the schema and data over or (I would recommend this way) have your code connect to a server which has the database on it.
You need to install at a minimum SQL Server 2005 express edition. You may also need to change the connection settings for your application, which may be in your .config file(depending on how you did your conneciton in your application) and depending on whether the server instance and database name you choose are different from what you used on your development computer.